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LiquidityBook acquires Messer to boost multi-asset capabilities

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As part of the acquisition, Bryan Messer has been appointed general manager of Asia Pacific, managing director of portfolio management solutions and artificial intelligence at LiquidityBook, with his staff also joining. In addition, the accounting and reconciliation engines of Messer Financial Software will be integrated.

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University of British Columbia (UBC) Investment Banking Placement (Using Data)

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UBC is a highly regarded Canadian university, with notable programs in medicine, law, engineering, and business. UBC also offers the elite Portfolio Management Foundation (PMF) program, which gives students practical investing experience and dedicated alumni support.

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The desk of the future: ‘AI conductors’ vs the traditional trader?

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Alan Martin Lucero, Gregory Armon-Jones Specifically, the speakers claimed two sides of a coin – either that the traders of the future will speak the language of software engineering first and foremost (Lucero) or that coding skills will be irrelevant as AI solutions will fill that need and traders will go back to the phones (Armon-Jones).

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Outsourced trading: Easy to do, difficult to get right

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You need to think of the trading desk as the engine that drives the room. An active manager needs an active desk.” Traders, and portfolio managers, across the industry are seemingly eager to be part of these conversations – not just about the dawn of outsourcing but also when it comes to technological change across the market.

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Early bird catches the worm: A look at the race for first mover advantage in Europe’s emerging crossing network landscape

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It is rare, for example, that you’ll find an asset manager worrying about the good of the market or how an order might influence the primary lit market share, over whether or not they have achieved the optimal outcome for their portfolio manager and end investor.

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Are we on our way to 24/7 trading in equities?

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With Middle East and North Africa (MENA) becoming a larger part of indices and portfolio managers’ thinking, decisions will have to be taken around how best to trade these markets. Already in EMEA, we have six valid trading days.

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The 20 greatest trading innovations

The TRADE

These systems touch upon all elements of the trading lifecycle throughout the front-to-middle-to-back-office including execution, order, risk and portfolio management. By seeing what is available on the order book, traders have an idea of how much volume can be executed at a specific price.

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